I hope he’s been holding that joke or it’s some pre-taped segment from the bins of pre-pandemic times to fill out airtime. It’d still be a bad joke, but a touch less horrifying.

We were just discussing David Sedaris in another thread. He lost me with his treatment of his sister Tiffany while she was alive, and then his further cruelties after she died by suicide. She had apparently begged him not to write about her and he refused to allot her that small act of privacy, and then when she died,…

“He feels that both his parents are being exploited and being presented in a false, simplistic way to make money.”

Hello gorgeous view!

Shelter Catstravaganza!

Due to the pandemic, I will be picking up ten hours of overtime a week starting Monday. The hospital has also gone from a COVID unit to a COVID floor to two floors, effective yesterday.

Panama looks good on you...those lights are classy as fuck and the pup looks like the sweetest.
So happy to see you’re feeling festive and settling nicely. Welcome home!

So, in backwards order, are our Christmas Clusters! They’re way cool lights that we bought at the hardware store, and when we got them home, we realized they were super knotted. After significant effort, during which I think we added more knots than we untangled, we realized they were never going to get sorted, so we…

Lockdown started in my area again today, which is weird because I’ve basically been in lockdown since March. I had a sonogram on my throat this week and, quelle suprise, they found several nodules. So I guess I start the whole biopsy mess all over again. I want to go outside and take a walk in the sun, go to coffee…

Filed to: Showing Your Whole Ass To A Global Audience

Not even that. They’re just arguing for actual thought, reflection, and context in the choice of books to assign, rather than reflexively falling back on the same 15-20 books that everyone seems to read in high school over the last 50+ years. To stop and think about what these books actually say to POC instead of just…

If I were a English teacher, I would teach it very differently than I was taught. No Moby Dick, no Silas Marner, no Catcher in the Rye. I also would be careful with Shakespeare. I used to think I hated Shakespeare because we had to read it out loud in class and/or memorize portions of Hamlet with little to no…

The purpose of English classes in primary and secondary school is to teach students to read texts and use language in order to critically evaluate the myriad sources of information with which they are presented each day.

The latter, with a side of “maybe the limited number of books we have time to assign in HS should include more books that encourage a love of reading and understanding of diverse lives, rather than just Moby Dick again”. That’s my understanding, anyway.

Not important! The important thing here is a white woman with an ego had a twitter meltdown on a person of color and hurled childish insults.

All discussion of high school reading, the value of old(er) books, motivating students, and updating syllabus (what’s the plural?) is moot!

My daughter’s AP English teacher apparently hates books by old white dudes that are traditionally taught in British Lit. So they’re reading a great variety of mostly modern British lit by a wide variety of diverse authors and my kid (who is not a kid who enjoys reading) is actually enjoying herself. The same couldn’t…

I very much enjoy that hard science and not “believing in yourself & being a nicer person” is the key to their freedom, even though they do become those things.

With her money, it’s totally doable without Botox. Facials, fancy creams, plus all those crazy new things you can have done by an aesthetician like micro-needling and lasers, not to mention fillers like Juvederm or Restylane. Saying you don’t use Botox is just like saying you don’t drink Ocean Spray juice. Still…

Years ago J-Lo said she used La Mer face cream all over her body every day. 16 oz of that is only $2,500. Totally relatable. 

Judging by her lack of any expression lines what-so-ever and her absolutely tight brows & forehead J.Lo is 100% lying about not having botox... to um... sell skincare? I guess consumers are still that gullible? Even insinuating that a 50 year old women can look like that without premium cosmetics and some procedure or…